Comment on Anon tells their life story

• dudinax@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I don’t mean privilege, I mean they are literally lucky.

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  • VeganCheesecake@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    How so? I mean, they seem to have been successful, in a sense, and nothing bad seems to have happened, but when you say ‘nothing happened’ I feel like you want to say that literally nothing else of significance happened, neither good nor bad. Seems like a rather boring, depressing life.

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    • dudinax@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Imagine playing blackjack for decades and getting a standoff every single hand. It’d seem boring, but it’d really be extraordinary.

      Also luckier than the average.

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      • FractalsInfinite@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Yes but you wouldn’t happy with that kind of outcome, you’d spend every day hoping for something more interesting to happen, perhaps even hoping for a loss to make things interesting after a certain point.

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      • VeganCheesecake@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I feel like Lucky usually has the connotation that you wanted the outcome.

        Also, they might have helped their chances by being very competent, but having very low people skills. I feel like that would improve the probability of something like this.

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      • Frigid@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I get what you’re saying but even if someone getting struck by lightning is extraordinary, we don’t say they’re lucky, we say they are unlucky.

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